The NBA and the NFL have hired the best of the best from the college game. Why hasn't major league baseball done the same. Quite simply, there is just too much politics in the game to alow it.
Football and Basketball do not have a minor league system. They are not provided an opportunity to develop hundreds of players to develop major league talent. They must draft efficiently and develop that talent immediately to play on their top level rosters. In major league baseball, players get sent to their minor league teams to develop major league skills. It is this minor league system that is truly a deterrant to hiring top notch coaching.
When a player plays in an organization and doesn't make the big leagues, he is often times rewarded by being hired as a minor league coach. The good ole boys club at its finest. These minor league coaches become major league managers and literally block all college coaches from entering the ranks of major league baseball.
Not that a college coach would want to coach major league baseball. I think college baseball is fresh and exciting while pro baseball is stagnant.
Major league coaches have an air of smugness when it comes to how to play the game. They believe that if they haven't thought of it or developed it, it must not have any merit.
Oregon St. is a two time national champion. You would think that major league baseball would be knocking down his door. Think again.
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